Grandma Ward's 90th Bday-Sept. 14th

Getting ready to go to Gma Ward's 90th bday party and Geraldine walked out of her room just as I was putting on Mya's shoes and I said, "Gerald, you and Mya look alike! and are your shoes sparkly?" and by golly they were! We did not plan this at all!! Everyone at the party asked if we planned it. haha isn't that funny?! 

twinners!

 I just love my mom in law so much!!

At the party in Bloomington Idaho-Baylor and I enjoying the festivities.

We played games that gma w. used to play when she was a little girl and jump roping was my fave! This is Uncle Phil and I jumping to "teddy bear teddy bear". I even double dutched! I loved it so much that the same week I ordered some jump ropes so we could do it down in Sanataquin!

What a special lady! She is 90 and lives on her own, picks her raspberries, writes bday cards to EVERY child, grandchild and great grand child! We just love her!

All the great grand kids

babies that were born this year! haha and we were missing 2 others

After the party we stayed saturday night with Gma W. and we had the best time ever!! We were all just so happy! It was just a lazy rainy weekend of eating her famous pancakes, talking, looking at a Book of Mormon that was given to her father in law by the prophet George Albert Smith and playing with the kids. I felt the spirit so strong in her house, it just testified to me that the only thing that matters is family. all we need is a roof over our head, food, and laughs! Gma and Gpa W were ranchers and their home feels like a country farm home and that's what Dean and I want to raise our kids in, a home with a lot of country space, the mtns, simplicity, the gospel, and fun! I can't wait to visit her again!

 Aunt Kathleen holding Baylor. Isn't that the sweetest face?

"Pee Pee Potty!"

Potty training!!! AWWW! It's one of my fears:) I don't know what I'm doing but I think it's coming along. she has the pee peeing down but we are still working on number 2. In this pic Dean is trying to bribe her to go and she just wanted her plastic popsicle things in her mouth! haha silly Mya!

(Mya sits on a Minnie Mouse toilet seat thing and there are a bunch of pics of Minnie Mouse and she points to the pic of Minnie winking and says, "eye's broke" haha)

Randoms of September

Mya and I enjoying some s'mores! 

Dean is redoing our kitchen cabinets so they will be white with bead board. We are so excited to be done with this long project! I will post before and after pics once the kitchen is put back together. I"m so grateful Dean is such a handy man and so hard working and meticulous.

Sunday naps-But he fell asleep while he was doing something on his iphone and his finger stayed on the screen haha

Having a tea party!

Trying to get Baylor Man to smile haha I just love his face!

Handsome little man!!

Picking Peaches

My favorite part of our house is that we have 2 peach trees!!! Mya and I picked all morning one day and froze some, made some frozen peach slush stuff that is really yummy, and we bottled about 18 bottles at my mother in laws, then had fresh peach pie and I had peaches in my oatmeal! I am so excited to preserve food now that I have a yard for a garden and a place to store the food! It is my goal to make gardening and preserving one of my main hobbies and I really want to get good at it (like Geraldine-she is amazing!) 

After picking boxes and boxes of peaches we found out that Mya LOVES them! She is kind of a picky eater so I am so excited to have found a fruit that she will ask for on a daily basis and we have our own so I don't have to go buy any! 

Playing while mom picks

My little helper!

She bruised quite a bit of the ones she picked but I want her to enjoy doing it and she did. I just love my little buddy!

5K in Santaquin-28:26

So Michelle and I run together so one day she mentions there is a 5k going on and asked if i wanted to do it and of course I wanted to and I got my fastest time of 28:26. I have decided that I will only pay someone to run if my money is going towards the community or someone's medical bills and this race it went to a little boys medical bills he has leukemia so running is fun when there is a purpose.

Michelle and I in our XL tshirts:)

Dean likes this pic of me for some weird reason-I think I look goofy with my huge grin coming across the finish line. (Dean and Mya were playing at the park where the race started and ended)

Michelle and her kids (except the biggest one, he is a neighbor who helped with her kids)

Onion Days in Payson-Labor day weekend

The kids and I went to Onion Days with my new friend, whom I adore, Michelle Olson and her niece and a couple of her kids. Dean was hunting and Michelle's husband was hunting with their 2 oldest kids. So it was just us and it was fun. it was a really long parade and we left it early cuz it was too long for us:) 

Baylor's crazy hair

Mya, James, and Michelle holding Baylor

Michelle and her niece, Liz

Dean with his doves and his mtn dew :) we didn't mean to have the pop in the picture. I have to brag a little about him cuz he won't admit it but he has a good eye and steady hands-he seriously is an amazing hunter and has great aim. I just love the joy he gets from being outside. And he doesn't just like to kill animals :) but he eats basically everything he shoots and he fixed himself some fried dove with rice. I didn't want to try it but he said it wasn't too bad

August randoms

Mya loves to love on Baylor and I'm pretty sure Baylor recognizes it's his sister by her high pitched squeals when she talks to him and a bunch of blonde hair in his face:) it makes me so happy to see them together and she is such a big help with him.

I love this pic of Mya and her cheesy grin

i could just eat that face!

everytime I get the camera out he will stop smiling or doing whatever i want to capture and he will just stare at the camera so I have to get my face from behind the camera and hold it off to the side and hope i capture him smiling.

Soldier Hollow International Sheepdog Competition-August 2013

Powder River supplies guards and gates for this sheepdog competition in Heber so Dean got free tickets and a parking pass so we decided to check it out-we have never seen this before except on the movie Babe, so we didn't know what to expect and was afraid it was going to be boring,

But it was so cool! we loved it! These dogs are so so smart! The pics I took are of a guy and dog from Ireland. The guy just whistles to tell the dog where to go and the dog just does it, the dog goes clear up a hill to get the 5 sheep down and he takes them throw different gates then he separates them 3 and 2 then puts them back together and puts them in a gate in 12 mins!!! absolutely amazing!

 Thank goodness we brought our stroller cuz there was hardly any shade!

Mya milking a cow! it was pretty fun!

me holding a snake from the wild animal exhibit-Dean didn't dare hold it :)

randomly we ran into our former Bishop in Logan, Bishop Younker, and his wife and 2 kids! It was fun seeing them and catching up. it's crazy that of all the places we could run into each other it was there. What a small world!

Baylor's 2 months-August 16th

Better late than never.....

Baylor's 2 months:

a very happy baby (mornings are your favorite you wake up smiling so big and kicking)

smiles a lot!

likes to bath now

still spits up

falls asleep almost instantly in the jogging stroller when mom jogs

you were blessed in Richmond UT

hates messy diapers

can sit in your bumbo for quite a while

i love the face he is pulling here! hahaha

Hansen Family Fun Activities (FFA)

Dean and I are not type A personalities, we don't like to make decisions (we are good if they are big important ones) but we don't like to be in charge of things we would rather be told what to do or bring, etc...well it was our turn this year to plan the Hansen reunion. It was quite hard to do when we were moving and having a baby and all that but we did it and it was pretty fun! 

We camped up Tony's Grove in Logan Canyon, we had never camped there before but it sounded good in april when we booked it. Well the camp was kind of on a hill but we made it work.

these are some pics of some games we played-wack a cracker (you have a saltine cracker tied to your belt lope and people try and brake it with rolled up newspapers or magazines but now we know not to use magazines cuz they hurt when you hit someone-we had 2 kids crying by the end)

the other game was shaving cream on top of a shower cap on your head while your partner threw cheetos in a certain amount of time. the person with the most on their head wins.

Mya just watching the kids and eating her fruit snacks

wack a cracker with Papa Sid

Dean and the parents helping put together the crackers and string

My Baylor being a good boy!

 After the cheeto game there was a shaving cream fight!

 The whole entire family-first time since 3 and a half years ago

 My beautiful country girl!

 Mya and Owen and Wyatt

 I love Baylor kisses!

 I just love his face when he cries!

 Best buds!

Words can't describe how much I love Cache Valley and the mountains and pines! home sweet home

The last night we were there-the Reeves and Ridings left-and it started to rain. So Dillon and Annie's family and us and Sid and Geraldine all slept in their trailer and we all fit! It was so fun! In the middle of the night Mya woke up crying (she was sleeping in between Dean and I) and after we calmed her back to sleep Annie says, "Don't worry she didn't wake us up we were already awake" and everyone was laughing. Then Parker says, "it 2 o'clock" someone said, "we have only been asleep for 4 hours?" and then Sid says, "at least you have been sleeping" then we all start laughing again! hahaha

Papa Sid said the next morning that he heard Dean in the middle of the night talking in his sleep he said, "What the freak was that?!" hahaha oh Dean! so even though it was a sleepless night we still had lots of fun! and that's what being a Hansen is all about....having fun even when life is hard! I love being a Hansen!!!!